A Pillar in the Temple -written April 28, 2010

Back a couple months our roof to the church, became damaged in a storm causing it to leak inside the sanctuary, resulting in damage.

Immediately attention went first to the ceiling tiles. They removed the damaged tiles from their place, so that the water wouldn't do any further damage to the surrounding tiles, until the problem could be fixed. The weather was too bad to get out and fix the roof, so we had to endure. We let the water drip into large trash cans. It seemed like the ministry was constantly checking the status of the roof, the ceiling, the electrical system, the drop-ceiling frame work, the remaining tiles, the carpeting under the leak, the trash cans, etcetera.

Finally we got the roof fixed and replaced the old tiles with new unspotted ones.

Here is what the Lord told me after that. We also have huge pillars in our building. It was once gutted and many rooms were made into one large open building. So there are pillars that could not be removed, in odd places through out the sanctuary.

The Lord showed me the pillars and said "See these pillars? They endured the storm. Yet they weren't patted on the back for enduring. The ceiling and the tiles got a lot of attention and focus. But the pillars were ignored and taken for granted. They ceiling tiles were never a permanent fixture to begin with. Their only job is superficial, and they weren't able to hold up and endure. But these pillars, upon whom the entire building depends and rests, who's job is so very important that should one of them fall or fail, the entire building would be at risk, were never thanked for enduring the storm.

Much talk was given surrounding the ceiling and tiles, but never did anyone mention the pillars and how well they'd endured. The pillars weren't given an appreciation day for their faithfulness and dependability.

So dependable that they're taken for granted. That is what it is to be a pillar in the church! 

You may not be getting pats on the back for your faithfulness over the years. You may not be getting flowers for how good a job you've done or how much you've endured. Nobody may be calling your name over the pulpit when they want to recognize or give an example of ones who are faithful or have endured, although you may have been more faithful and endured more than all those who's names are called.

You may in fact, be so dependable that you are completely taken for granted. Like a pillar in the building. We don't admire them. We don't appreciate them. We just expect of them, to do the great job they have been given, to always do it well, and never fail.

Heb 6:10 But God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which ye have showed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.